Ritesh on Sep 20th, 2007Performance and its importance for websites
Recently, the field of performance has been taken by storm. Right from the people in my company who came to improve performance of our websites to the people who gave talks about performance in unconferences held in the city, performance seems to be the thing to talk about.
A recent trip to the [...]
Ritesh on Aug 3rd, 2007Comet paradigm implementation
There are a lot of schools of thought when it comes to the comet paradigm. There are some who think of comet as a technology in itself that can change the way the web works, while others think its nothing more than another buzzword alongside Ajax and Web2.0. I think, in essence , the latter [...]
Ritesh on Jul 19th, 2007Community as a Service - implications of the facebook platform
The recent opening up of the facebook platform has created a rage in the industry. Facebook themselves , after opening up to public signups, have had an increase of 80% in their monthly uniques. The facebook platform is just another icing in the cake.
There are innumerable number of apps that are being created on the [...]
Ritesh on Jul 17th, 2007Collaborative apps and Collective human intelligence
Collaborative apps have been around for quite sometime now, but they have been lurking very close the corporate apps which can be used primarily in a business scenario. A simple example of the same could be the productivity 2.0 apps like Zoho or Google Docs. The only other breed of collaborative app has been games, [...]
Ritesh on Jul 5th, 2007Getting Familiar with Google Gears
Google Gears was released recently as an effort to promote offline web. I have written time and again about this genre of web applications and have spoken about the advancements like the Dojo Offline Toolkit, AIR and the new Silverlight that try to blemish the line between web and desktop applications.
Google Gears is designed [...]